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[[File: AAGSBL logo.jpg|thumb|100px|Logo of the All-American Girls Softball League, 1943]]The league went through a series of name changes during its history. It was founded as the '''All-American Girls Softball League''',<ref name="Cullen-DuPont2000"/> but, midway through its first season of 1943, the name was changed to the '''All-American Girls Baseball League''' (AAGBBL).<ref name="leaguehistory"/> After the 1943 season, the official League name was again changed, to the '''All-American Girls Professional Ball League''' (AAGPBL), reflecting that players were paid from the start and further separating it from existing amateur leagues.<ref name=WDL1>{{cite web|title=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Player Marg Callaghan Sliding into Home Plate as Umpire Norris Ward Watches|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/4025/|work=[[World Digital Library]]|date=April 22, 1948|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|access-date=December 31, 2013}}</ref> This name was used until the end of the 1945 season, when the league reverted to '''All-American Girls Baseball League''' (AAGBBL), which it would use through 1950. When teams were sold to independent owners at the end of the 1950 season, the official League name was changed to the '''American Girls Baseball League''' (AGBL), although it continued to be popularly identified as the '''All-American League''' or the '''All-American Girls Baseball League''' (AAGBBL). When the Players' Association was organized in 1986 and gained recognition from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988, it was again, and finally, named ''All-American Girls Professional Baseball League'' (AAGPBL).<ref name="leaguehistory"/>
 
In 2019, the Players' Association established ''American Girls Baseball,'' which promotes women's baseball for the [[WBSCWorld Baseball Softball Confederation]] [[Women's Baseball World Cup]].<ref>{{cite web |title=AAGPBL to increase support for women and girls playing baseball |url=https://www.aagpbl.org/articles/show/67 |website=AAGPBL Players Union |access-date=2024-05-24 |ref=AGB}}</ref> The organisation, headed by Sue Parsons (Rockford, 1953-54) with support from Misdee Miller, whosegranddaughter grandfatherof AAGPBL founder Phillip Wrigley founded the original AAGPBL, organises the All-American Woman’s Baseball Classic at [[Ed Smith Stadium]], the spring training home of the [[Baltimore Orioles]], in [[Sarasota, Florida]] during November in a tournament that began in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=All-American Woman's Baseball Classic |date=November 2022 |url=https://americangirlsbaseball.org/inaugural-all-american-womans-baseball-classic-to-take-place-at-ed-smith-stadium/ |publisher=American Girls Baseball |access-date=2024-05-24 |ref=AGBOSST}}</ref> The AGB tournament features four teams named as tributes for the original AAGPBL teams, with all teams using a progressive fade to white jersey based on the colours of the squad-- Rockford (peach with red numerals), South Bend (light blue with dark blue numerals), Racine (gold with brown numerals), and Kenosha (light green with green numerals) and white trousers. Games are played to modern WBSC Women's Baseball rules, with all games seven innings long.
 
==Rules of play==
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